Weltschmerz [electronic resource] : pessimism in German philosophy, 1860-1900 / Frederick C. Beiser.

First edition.

9780191822070 (electronic book)

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2016.

English

1 online resource (ix, 301 pages)

10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198768715 doi

B829 .B45 2016eb

149.6094309034

Frederick C. Beiser presents a study of the pessimism that dominated German philosophy from the 1860s to c. 1900: the theory that life is not worth living. He explores its major defenders and chief critics, and examines how the theory redirected German philosophy away from the logic of the sciences and toward an examination of the value of life.

Frederick C. Beiser presents a study of the pessimism that dominated German philosophy from the 1860s to c. 1900: the theory that life is not worth living. He explores its major defenders and chief critics, and examines how the theory redirected German philosophy away from the logic of the sciences and toward an examination of the value of life.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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